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Author : Robert William Fogel
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Railroads and American Economic Growth written by Robert William Fogel and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dave Donaldson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (894 download)
Download or read book Railroads and American Economic Growth written by Dave Donaldson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the historical impact of railroads on the American economy. Expansion of the railroad network may have affected all counties directly or indirectly - an econometric challenge that arises in many empirical settings. However, the total impact on each county is captured by changes in that county's "market access," a reduced-form expression derived from general equilibrium trade theory. We measure counties' market access by constructing a network database of railroads and waterways and calculating lowest-cost county-to-county freight routes. As the railroad network expanded from 1870 to 1890, changes in market access were capitalized into county agricultural land values with an estimated elasticity of 1.1. County-level declines in market access associated with removing all railroads in 1890 are estimated to decrease the total value of US agricultural land by 64%. Feasible extensions to internal waterways or improvements in country roads would have mitigated 13% or 20% of the losses from removing railroads.
Author : Robert William Fogel
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Railroads and American Economic Growth written by Robert William Fogel and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dave Donaldson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Railroads and Amercian Economic Growth written by Dave Donaldson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Lester Sturm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Railroads and Market Growth written by James Lester Sturm and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathleen Tracy
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612283624
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The Railroad Grows Into an Industry (1840-1850) written by Kathleen Tracy and published by Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to the 1820s, the main form of commercial transportation in America was steamboats, which were able to move large quantities of freight and passengers. When the first railroads were built, they were initially seen as a novelty. But a handful of visionaries believed that railroads could transform the way business was conducted and create new opportunities for both established companies and independent entrepreneurs. In the 1840s and the 1850s, the railroad industry would experience tremendous growth and become the primary means of moving goods throughout the United States. Expansion of the rail system stimulated the economy, promoted manufacturing, and turned railroads into one of the most valuable industries in the world, making their owners millionaires and industrial–age power brokers in the process. Railroads also helped make America one of the most dominant economic powers in the world.
Author : United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Policy and Program Development
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Railroad Situation written by United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Policy and Program Development and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Economic Growth and Stabilization
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 936 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Rail Deregulation written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Economic Growth and Stabilization and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marshall Monroe Kirkman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Science of Railways ... written by Marshall Monroe Kirkman and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas W. Caves
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Measuring Productivity Growth in the U.S. Railroad Industry with an Estimate of Losses Resulting from Economic Regulation written by Douglas W. Caves and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Commission on Railroad Retirement
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Railroad Retirement System written by United States. Commission on Railroad Retirement and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert William Fogel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)
Download or read book Railroads and American Economic Growth written by Robert William Fogel and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Railway Systems and Management Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Six Essentials for Railroad Growth written by Railway Systems and Management Association and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amy Friedlander
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Emerging Infrastructure written by Amy Friedlander and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leon Hirsch Keyserling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Move Toward Railroad Mergers written by Leon Hirsch Keyserling and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elisabeth Köll
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674368177
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (743 download)
Download or read book Railroads and the Transformation of China written by Elisabeth Köll and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a vehicle to convey both the history of modern China and the complex forces still driving the nation’s economic success, rail has no equal. Railroads and the Transformation of China is the first comprehensive history, in any language, of railroad operation from the last decades of the Qing Empire to the present. China’s first fractured lines were built under semicolonial conditions by competing foreign investors. The national system that began taking shape in the 1910s suffered all the ills of the country at large: warlordism and Japanese invasion, Chinese partisan sabotage, the Great Leap Forward when lines suffered in the “battle for steel,” and the Cultural Revolution, during which Red Guards were granted free passage to “make revolution” across the country, nearly collapsing the system. Elisabeth Köll’s expansive study shows how railroads survived the rupture of the 1949 Communist revolution and became an enduring model of Chinese infrastructure expansion. The railroads persisted because they were exemplary bureaucratic institutions. Through detailed archival research and interviews, Köll builds case studies illuminating the strength of rail administration. Pragmatic management, combining central authority and local autonomy, sustained rail organizations amid shifting political and economic priorities. As Köll shows, rail provided a blueprint for the past forty years of ambitious, semipublic business development and remains an essential component of the PRC’s politically charged, technocratic economic model for China’s future.
Author : John F. Stover
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226776603
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book American Railroads written by John F. Stover and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few scenes capture the American experience so eloquently as that of a lonely train chugging across the vastness of the Great Plains, or snaking through tortuous high mountain passes. Although this vision was eclipsed for a time by the rise of air travel and trucking, railroads have enjoyed a rebirth in recent years as profitable freight carriers. A fascinating account of the rise, decline, and rebirth of railroads in the United States, John F. Stover's American Railroads traces their history from the first lines that helped eastern seaports capture western markets to today's newly revitalized industry. Stover describes the growth of the railroads' monopoly, with the consequent need for state and federal regulations; relates the vital part played by the railroads during the Civil War and the two World Wars; and charts the railroads' decline due to the advent of air travel and trucking during the 1950s. In two new chapters, Stover recounts the remarkable recovery of the railroads, along with other pivotal events of the industry's recent history. During the 1960s declining passenger traffic and excessive federal regulation led to the federally-financed creation of Amtrak to revive passenger service and Conrail to provide freight service on bankrupt northeastern railroads. The real savior for the railroads, though, proved to be the Staggers Rail Act of 1980, which brought prosperity to rail freight carriers by substantially deregulating the industry. By 1995, renewed railroad freight traffic had reached nearly twice its former peak in 1944. Bringing both a seasoned eye and new insights to bear on one of the most American of industries, Stover has produced the definitive history of railroads in the United States.
